The Arizona sentinel., 1887-03-05
FROM MOHAWK.
BY ''HArsEKDs.

The river is rising slowly.
 Weather windy and cod for this time oi year.
 The cottonwood trees are putting on their summer dress of dark green.
 S. W. Taylor has had a survey made to take water from the river through portion of the old Charley Baker ditch, thence around through slough to a point where he intends to put in centrifugal pump aud aise the water I2 feet. This will put wa ter on Sect oa 8, T. :, s. k. l6 w. He also proposes to furnish water for tbe adjoin- ig Sections, 26, p and 8. Chas. Landon mas taken the contract to build the ditch, and has commenced work with force of Apache Indians The ditch will be 3,400 feet long. feet wide on the bottom and will have fall of ll feet to the mile.
 w. w. Haokett has hired all of Norton's mule teams and put them to work on his canal. He expects to have the water run- ming through his canal by the 10th inst.
 ALMOST A HUMAN SACRIFICE.
 Withcraft, and the belief in evil spirits, is evidently strongly ingrafted upon the religious doctrines Of the ApacheS, as it was upon that of our own race in days agone, as the folio ing circumstance, which hap pened few days ago ill this valley, will snow: An Apache Indian near the head gate of the canal has been seriously sick for a lolg time. All the noted medicine men nave been from time to time employed to treat him. At present the great medicine men ot San Carlos are attending him. Some of them begin low, chanting song at night fall, breaking out now and thenlnto wild, N elrd refrain: this they keep up all nlght, while tine chief medicine man pnts Ill the night blowing smoke over the sick man, ana cutting long gashes with sharp kniie' pretends to draw worms therefrom. Night before last they concluded that their paLl- ent was bewitched by l6-year-old maiden squaw named Calue, and determined upon her death. They brought her into their 
 camp bat that night she escaped, but was brought back the folio wing day, hung up by the hands and preparations began to be made to disembowel her on that night. The souaw S mother, who could not overcome her natural parental feelings of atfectiOn' even to satisfy the demands of her tradition al religious belief in witchcraft, came down crying to Mohawk and related the circum- stances. Capt. F. w. Smith and Geo. w. Norton hitched up a team and went up and rescued the intended victim. The Indians are very angry and threaten to kill th mother of the squaw.
 Mir. J. w. Darlington, president, and MT. F. L. Ewing, vice president, of the Mo hawk Canal Co.,, paid visit to the yalleJ this week. Mir. Ewing remained in the lower end of the valley, while Mir. Dorring- ton took a trip through the upper part. Mir. Darlington informed me that in his interview with the officials of the Southern Pacific railroad during his recent visit to San Francisco, they agreed to reduce the price of old railroad ties from b cents each to ten. They also agreed tta5 they would construct suitable buildings at Tacna ana | Texas Hill for the better accommodation O. freight and passengers, for which the people will be grateful.
 MT. J. Kavanagh has opened private school on First street, Yuma, for young ladies and gentlemen. He teachesall branch es usually taught in public schools. Mir.